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Out of curiosity, why do you think it's vastly superior?


We are big fans of Felt!


As someone who used to work at an ad tech company, I can tell you that we're very much not an ad tech company. In fact, we set out to build the opposite. More here: https://radar.com/blog/our-commitment-to-privacy

Short, easy-to-spell name that suggests location. It's worked out pretty well for us, and we got the dot com!


> name that suggests location.

Not really.


Would love to chat. Worth considering best solution given tradeoffs: Cost, coverage, customization options, enterprise-readiness


I believe the point is that Op doesn't _want_ to chat. I believe the originally point is you should be up front and _clear_ with your pricing rather than trying to force a conversation.


Yep, I get it. Working on a self-serve pricing calculator. Reality is that enterprise convos do make sense at sufficient scale. If it does here, our inbox is open!


You get that they don't want to chat but circle right back around into 'our inbox is open' lol

Odd


Often, if a company has "Contact Sales" on their pricing page it's because they only want customers who have a budget big enough to warrant contacting sales.

At an early stage, it's often easier and more lucrative to build for and support a few large customers than many small ones.


Yeah I understand that, I was just amused at the extent to which the guy was convincingly impersonating a half-bright chatbot


Our standard policy is that you can cache responses for up to 30 days: https://radar.com/documentation/maps/geocoding#caching


> Licensee shall not … store any address or point of interest data from Radar's geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs for more than thirty (30) days;

So if an e-commerce site user starts typing their address, it’s autocompleted via Radar, and the user confirms it, then the site must delete the user’s address after 30 days?

This seems wrong.


*crickets*


Thanks for the reply. I was reading docs but missed that somehow.


Pricing page could def be clearer. Working on it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37668919


Pricing is per API call right now, but we're planning to add "per session" pricing in future.


Can you share more about what you're hoping to do?


I used to work for a company that made an app for drafting evacuation signs, and we had a usecase for using a map as an underlay to show the surrounding buildings/terrain for the siteplan. I recall that quite a few map providers had a TOS that prevented that usecase (as the evac signs would be saved to pdf for distribution or printed), so I'm interested what the take is here.


Old but good post on vector maps vs. raster maps from our friends at CARTO: https://carto.com/blog/raster-vs-vector-whats-the-difference...


Stay tuned...!?


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